Effects of linguistic experience on the ability to benefit from temporal and spectral masker modulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1335-1343

  Calandruccio, Lauren ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Hall, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SENTENCE RECOGNITION; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS;

MODULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896346181     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4864785     Document Type: Article

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